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The West Florida Public Library System is an organization of libraries that serve the Pensacola, Florida area with branch libraries in Escambia County, Florida. The Library System currently has approximately 360,000 books, 36,000 audio resources, and 14,000 video resources in circulation.
West Florida Public Libraries will be serving free lunch for youths 18 years of age and younger through the "Meals for Youths" program this summer.
The library was founded as an independent volunteer-run library after the county stopped bookmobile services in the 1980s. The library was eventually merged into the West Florida Public Libraries System, before leaving the system in 2006 with the other Santa Rosa County library branches to create the Santa Rosa County Library System.
The West Tampa Free Public Library, more recently the West Tampa Branch Library, is a historic building in the West Tampa National Historic District in Tampa, Florida. [1] It was the first public library in Hillsborough County, Florida, when it opened on Main and Howard Avenue in 1914. [2]
Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC), with headquarters in Tampa, Florida, is a nonprofit library cooperative that assists hundreds of libraries in the Central and West Florida regions. TBLC serves public libraries, academic libraries, school libraries and special libraries. The TBLC membership serves 6.3 million people in the State of Florida. [1]
The Key West Library houses a multimedia collection that includes some 190,000 items, public computers with internet access, remote online services, and has a renowned Florida History Room. Most notably, the library’s online photograph archive contains thousands of images, documenting the history of the Florida Keys and Key West. [ 9 ]
By 1925, Tampa's public library network had four branches. The City of Tampa annexed West Tampa that year and absorbed their library, the West Tampa Free Public Library (previously a stand-alone entity), into the library system. As Hillsborough County continued to grow throughout the 20th century, the need for libraries further away increased.
The Hernando County Public Library System has 4 branches located in Hernando County, Florida on the west central coast of the state and serves approximately 192,186 residents. [1] The main branch is located in downtown Brooksville and was dedicated as the Frederick Eugene Lykes Jr. Memorial Library in 1950. [2]